The ETSI (Engineering School of the University of Seville) hosted for the tenth year in a row the National Seminar on Avionics and Air Navigation Systems (SINASA) during April 15th, 16th and 17th. That event met an important number of profesionals, researchers and students from the aerospace industry.

This time, the SPADE team showed the progress of the project in one talk celebrated during the seminar. At the talk participated professor Miguel A. Aguirre (ETSI), M. de la Cruz Sánchez (SPADE team leader) and Pablo Romero (the team journalist). They talked about the importance of this kind of projects within the University of Seville. They also explained the REXUS/BEXUS programme, the experiment and the different steps that they have been achieving. Finally, they mentioned the origins of the team members as they come from a students association of aerospace engineering at the University of Seville called LEEM.

At the end of the seminar, both students and professionals warmly thanked the SPADE team for going so far with the experiment, applying what they have learnt at the university to a great project that will be sent to the stratosphere.

After the Preliminary Design Review and the Student Training Week in Germany it should be noted the important progress in the project development. On the one hand the team met several times with Adevice, the microelectronics company, which provided them with the sensor nodes to start making the first tests of the experiment. They also helped them to finish setting up the nodes and the coordinator, and they talked at these meetings about the issues on mechanical design and thermal insulation.

Also, after this review, the team met with Hipólito Guzmán, an Electrical Engineering professor at the University of Seville and a collaborator with the SPADE project. He talked and gave lectures on good practice in project management .

Finally, during this period, it have to be mentioned the first tests and performance tests , using the thermal imager.